Pools & Roles

Description of dTeach's collaboration pools.

dTeach provides space for the collaboration and exchange of three different actor types called pools.

Donor Pool

In the donors pool donor organizations gather, exchange, and decentrally provide funding (co-funding possible) for projects to be developed, revised, or edited by the content creators (creators pool) and tested & evaluated by the teachers and instructional coordinators (teachers pool).

Creators Pool

The creators pool is the creative community building the open educational resources from scratch or editing existing OER's. By their decentralized collaboration and voting of the educational material they proof scientific correctness and educational sense as well as convincing and empowering design. From the creators pool the final drafts of the OER's emerge - ready to be tested in class (teachers pool).

Teachers Pool

The teachers pool consists of an international teachers community working in different stages of the education chain. The teachers are able to test the OER's created by the creators and give their feedback on classroom (... homeschooling, university seminar etc.) applicability. Without their feedback the OER will not be published.

Actors in each Pool

Donor Pool	Creators Pool	Teachers Pool
Foundations	Educational content creators	Teachers, educators & teacher trainers
International & national funds	Instructional coordinators	Instructional coordinators
Intergovernmental organizations	Educational content specialists	Educational content specialists
International cooperations & development cooperation	Researchers & scientists
Educational, scientific and cultural organizations	Teachers, educators & teacher trainers
Governments (e.g. Ministries)	Other educators and pedagogues
Companies (CSR)	Filmmakers, graphic designers, & web designers etc. ...
	Translators & local experts (adaptation of resources)

Roles (descriptions follow soon)

Donors (D)

Resource Creators (RC)

senior Resource Creators (sRC)

Resource Assessors (RA)

senior Resource Assessors (sRA)

Resource Testers (RT)

senior Resource Testers (sRT)

Voters (V)